Improvement in baling manures



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improvement in AEaling Manure. No. 128,454. Patentedluly 2,1812.

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HOLLAND C. BABCOCK, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN BA L|NG MANURES.

I 'Specification forming part of Lettere Patent No. 128,454, dated July 2, 1872.

-with greater facility of handling and rapidity of loading and unloading, and with less liability of heating.

In the accompanying drawing, a represents a compressed bale or package of manure. b is a section of the same, showing a whisp, c, formed of any suitable material, and compressed firmly into the bale, forming handles d, for lifting, loading, and unloading said bales. e represents' one of a number of tiers of litter placed between the layers of manure while being placed in readiness for being packed or compressed in any of the common ways of compressing material into a solid body.

By this improvement I am enabled to prepare manure for storage in holds of vessels, which ship-masters heretofore have been unwilling to receive because of its heating proclivity, which, by this invention, is obviated,

because a suflicient air-space can be secured between the bales, thereby doing away with the use of forks and shovels in loading and unloading, or handling for shipment or storage.

I believe I have thus shown the nature and advantage of this invention, so as to enable others skilled in the art to practice the same therefrom.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isv p A bale of manure formed and pressed into layers, and with or without handles embedded substantially as set forth.

- HOLLAND C. BABCOCK.

Witnesses:

O. S. KELSEY, JEREMY W. BLISS. 

